"on Broadway tend to have longer runs than ""straight"" (i.e. non-musical) plays. On January 9, 2006, ""The Phantom of the Opera"" at the Majestic Theatre became the longest running Broadway musical, with 7,486 performances, overtaking ""Cats"". Attending a Broadway show is a common tourist activity in New York. The TKTS booths sell same-day tickets (and in certain cases next-day matinee tickets) for many Broadway and Off-Broadway shows at a discount of 20 to 50%. The TKTS booths are located in Times Square, in Lower Manhattan, and at Lincoln Center. This service is run by Theatre Development Fund. Many Broadway theatres"
"at the Shubert Theatre on Broadway July 25, 1975, directed and choreographed by Michael Bennett. An unprecedented box office and critical hit, the musical received twelve Tony Award nominations and won nine, in addition to the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The original Broadway production ran for 6,137 performances, becoming the longest-running production in Broadway history until surpassed by ""Cats"" in 1997, and the longest-running Broadway musical originally produced in the US, until surpassed in 2011 by ""Chicago"". It remains the seventh longest-running Broadway show ever. ""A Chorus Line""s success has spawned many successful productions worldwide. It began a lengthy"
"Long-running musical theatre productions This is a selected list of the longest-running musical theatre productions in history divided into two sections. The first section lists all Broadway and West End productions of musicals that have exceeded 2,500 performances, in order of greatest number of performances in either market. The second section lists, in alphabetical order, musicals that have broken historical long run records for musical theatre on Broadway, in the West End or Off-Broadway, since 1866, in alphabetical order. The following is a list of musical theatre productions that have exceeded 2,500 performances in Broadway or West End theatres. The"
"longest-running show. The Broadway run ended on September 12, 2015, with its 5,758th performance, and was passed two years later (August 16, 2017) by ""Wicked"" to move one spot down in the list of longest-running Broadway shows. When ""Mamma Mia!"" opened in Russia, it received a very positive response. As of January 2008, ""Mamma Mia!"" became the longest daily running show in the history of Russian theatre. ""Mamma Mia!"" does not only heighten a nostalgic and emotional reactions to the ABBA fans, it has also been celebrated for its feminist overtones. The musical features strong female protagonists living in a"
"Skopelos and will feature live musicians and real Mediterranean food. On any given day, there are at least seven performances of ""Mamma Mia!"" being performed around the globe. On May 15, 2005, ""Mamma Mia!"" surpassed the original Broadway runs of ""The Sound of Music"", ""The King and I"", and ""Damn Yankees"" with 1,500 performances. On March 6, 2014, it surpassed ""Rent"" to become the 8th longest-running Broadway musical and 9th longest-running show of all time with 5,124 performances, then surpassed ""Beauty and the Beast's"" 5,462 performances that same year, on December 14, to become Broadway's 7th longest-running musical and 8th"
"years. Starring Chita Rivera, Jerry Orbach and Gwen Verdon in her last Broadway role, it suffered from a cynical attitude, which contrasted with the record-breaking popularity of ""A Chorus Line"". Though rumors of a film production directed again by Fosse were heard, the show did not seriously re-surface until 1996, when it was revived as part of the ""Encores!"" series. A huge hit, the minimalist production transferred to Broadway and holds the record as the longest-running musical revival and the longest-running American musical in Broadway history. It is the second longest-running show in Broadway history, behind only ""The Phantom of"
"and the 1988 Tony Award for Best Musical, and Michael Crawford (in the title role) won the Olivier and Tony Awards for Best Actor in a Musical. It is the longest running show in Broadway history by a wide margin, and celebrated its 10,000th Broadway performance on 11 February 2012, the first production ever to do so. It is the second longest-running West End musical, after ""Les Misérables"", and the third longest-running West End show overall, after ""The Mousetrap"". With total estimated worldwide gross receipts of over $5.6 billion and total Broadway gross of $845 million, ""Phantom"" was the most"
"the seventh longest-running show in West End history, as well as various international productions. Its Broadway incarnation closed in September 2015 after a 14-year run, making it the ninth longest-running show in Broadway history. ""Mamma Mia!"" is based on the songs of ABBA, a Swedish pop/dance group active from 1972 to 1982 and one of the most popular international pop groups of all time, topping the charts again and again in Europe, North and South America and Australia. Following the premiere of the musical in London in 1999, topped the charts in the United Kingdom again. This musical was the"
"following is an annotated alphabetical list of other musicals that have set records for long runs. Long-running musical theatre productions This is a selected list of the longest-running musical theatre productions in history divided into two sections. The first section lists all Broadway and West End productions of musicals that have exceeded 2,500 performances, in order of greatest number of performances in either market. The second section lists, in alphabetical order, musicals that have broken historical long run records for musical theatre on Broadway, in the West End or Off-Broadway, since 1866, in alphabetical order. The following is a list"
"with an official opening date of November 16, 1999. The musical closed on July 29, 2007, after 46 previews and 5,461 performances, and is Broadway's tenth-longest running production in history (). The production holds the record of being the longest running production at both the Palace Theatre, where it opened, and the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, where it closed its Broadway run. The production cost an estimated $12 million, arguably higher, becoming the most costly Broadway musical at the time. However, some analysists estimate the cost to be closer to $20 million. Directed by Robert Jess Roth with choreography by Matt West"
"where it became the first Broadway musical in history to surpass 10,000 performances on 11 February 2012. On 26 January 2013, the production celebrated its 25th anniversary with its 10,400th performance. It is, by over 3,500 performances, the longest-running show in Broadway history. By November 2016, ""Phantom"" had been staged over 12,000 times over 28 years. The 30th anniversary was on January 26, 2018- the first Broadway musical to reach this milestone- with the celebration on the 24th, special events all week long and a renunion with the original cast during the curtain call. Critical reviews were mostly positive on"
"It is now the 23rd longest running musical in Broadway history. ""Avenue Q"" won the 2004 Tony Award for Best Musical. Lopez/Marx's musical score earned them a 2004 Tony Award, and another Tony Award was awarded to ""Avenue Q"" bookwriter, Jeff Whitty. The musical's Original Cast Album, on the RCA/Victor label, was nominated for a Grammy Award. To date , it has sold over 150,000 copies. Marx (and his parents) can be seen in the documentary film """", which followed the trajectories of four Tony-nominated musicals from 2004, ""Avenue Q"", ""Wicked"", ""Taboo"" and ""Caroline, or Change"". Marx, along with filmmaker"
"Adonis (musical) Adonis is an 1884 burlesque musical produced by Edward E. Rice who also composed the music along with John Eller. The book was written by William Gill. After playing at Hooley's Opera House in Chicago in the summer of 1884, it debuted at the Bijou Theatre in New York on September 4, 1884. It there had a run of 603 consecutive performances, making it the longest-running show on Broadway during that period, and the longest Broadway run of all time until 1893. After the show successfully ran for 500 shows, a cocktail was created in its honor. It"
"2001 to May 12, 2001, and finally to Chicago, Illinois, at the Cadillac Palace Theatre from May 13, 2001 to August 12, 2001. The musical opened on Broadway at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 18, 2001, after beginning previews on October 5. The director is Phyllida Lloyd with choreography by Anthony Van Laast. As of October 2017, it is the ninth longest-running Broadway show and the longest-running jukebox musical in Broadway history. On April 18, 2013, it was announced that ""Mamma Mia!"" would transfer from its home at the Winter Garden Theatre to the Broadhurst Theatre later that year"
"October 21, 1913 opening of the George Bernard Shaw play, ""Caesar and Cleopatra"", staged by the Forbes-Robertson Repertory Company. The theatre's longest tenant was ""A Chorus Line"", which ran for 6,137 performances from 1975 to 1990 and set the record for longest running show in Broadway history. Later long runs have included ""Crazy for You"" (1992–1996), ""Chicago"" (1996–2003), ""Spamalot"" (2005–2009), ""Memphis"" (2009–2012) and ""Matilda the Musical"" (2013–2017). ""Hello, Dolly!"" achieved the box office record for the Shubert Theatre. The production grossed $2,403,482 over eight performances, for the week ending October 22, 2017. The theatre has also been a recurring venue"
"Bernard Shaw's ""Pygmalion"" starring Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews, which at 2,717 performances held the long-run record for many years. Popular Hollywood films were made of all of these musicals. This surpassed the run of two hits by British creators: ""The Boy Friend"" (1954), which ran for 2,078 performances in London and marked Andrews' American debut, was very briefly the third longest-running musical in West End or Broadway history (after ""Chu Chin Chow"" and ""Oklahoma!""), until ""Salad Days"" (1954) surpassed its run and became the new long-run record holder, with 2,283 performances. Another record was set by ""The Threepenny Opera"","
"become a global juggernaut since 1999, having now played in more than 40 countries in all six continents, and in 16 different languages. It has set the record for premiering in more cities faster than any other musical in history. The show has been nominated for numerous Olivier and Tony awards and was the first West End and Broadway musical to be performed in Chinese. ""Mamma Mia!"" is the 8th longest running show in Broadway history and one of only five musicals to have run for more than 10 years on the Great White Way. ""Mamma Mia!"" is in its"
"8 October 2005. The Broadway production closed on 18 May 2003, making it the third-longest-running Broadway musical, following ""Cats"" and ""The Phantom of the Opera"". Schönberg oversaw the production of ""Les Misérables"" that returned to Broadway for an intended six-month engagement at the Broadhurst Theatre on 9 November 2006, although it later extended its run. Schönberg's ""Marguerite"" includes music by Michel Legrand and lyrics by Herbert Kretzmer. Set during World War II in occupied Paris, and inspired by the romantic novel ""La Dame aux camélias"" by Alexandre Dumas, fils, ""Marguerite"" is about the mistress of a high-ranking German officer who"
"1955. The longest running Broadway production by far was Margaret Webster's 1940 staging starring Maurice Evans as Malvolio and Helen Hayes as Viola. It ran for 129 performances, more than twice as long as any other Broadway production. A memorable production directed by Liviu Ciulei at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, October–November 1984, was set in the context of an archetypal circus world, emphasising its convivial, carnival tone. When the play was first performed, all female parts were played by men or boys, but it has been the practice for some centuries now to cast women or girls in the"
"Rodgers and Hammerstein's new show, ""Me and Juliet"", although ""South Pacific"" had to be moved to Boston for five weeks because of schedule conflicts. When it closed on January 16, 1954, after 1,925 performances, it was the second-longest-running musical in Broadway history, after ""Oklahoma!"". At the final performance, Myron McCormick, the only cast member remaining from the opening, led the performers and audience in ""Auld Lang Syne""; the curtain did not fall but remained raised as the audience left the theatre. On a South Pacific island during World War II, two half-Polynesian children, Ngana and Jerome, happily sing as they"
"giving tickets away just so that it would stay open, so they would break the record."" On September 29, 1983, Bennett and 330 ""A Chorus Line"" veterans came together to produce a show to celebrate the musical becoming the longest-running show in Broadway history. Up to February 19, 1990, ""A Chorus Line"" had generated US$146 million from its Broadway gross and US$277 million in total U.S. grosses and had 6.5 million Broadway attendees. At the time, it was the second most profitable show in Broadway history after ""Cats"" with profits of $50 million (including ancillary income). 75% of the profits"
"its 20th year, and as of at least September 2017 it is the longest-running American musical on Broadway. The revival of ""Chicago"" won numerous Tony Awards, and Reinking won the Tony Award for Best Choreography. She recreated her choreography for the 1997 London transfer of ""Chicago"", which starred Ute Lemper and Ruthie Henshall. In 1998 she co-created, co-directed and co-choreographed the revue ""Fosse"", receiving a Tony Award co-nomination for Best Direction of a Musical. For her work on the West End production of ""Fosse"", Reinking (along with the late Bob Fosse himself) won the 2001 Olivier Award for Best Theatre"
"12 years on Broadway where they won 3 Tony Awards and received a Grammy Award. On July 12, 2018, with its 6,138th performance, it surpassed ""A Chorus Line"" to become Broadway's sixth-longest running show. In March 2016, Wicked surpassed $1 billion in total Broadway revenue, joining both ""The Phantom of the Opera"" and ""The Lion King"" as the only Broadway shows to do so. In July 2017, Wicked surpassed ""The Phantom of the Opera"" as Broadway's second-highest grossing show, trailing only ""The Lion King"". Hebel originated and helped create the violin and concertmaster role in Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel's"
"for love – each one's choice of a husband moves further away from the customs of their Jewish faith and heritage – and with the edict of the Tsar that evicts the Jews from their village. The original Broadway production of the show, which opened in 1964, had the first musical theatre run in history to surpass 3,000 performances. ""Fiddler"" held the record for the longest-running Broadway musical for almost 10 years until ""Grease"" surpassed its run. It remains the sixteenth longest-running show in Broadway history. The production was extraordinarily profitable and highly acclaimed. It won nine Tony Awards, including"
"Annette Mills, Gonzalo Curiel, and Oscar Hammerstein II. Hellzapoppin (musical) Hellzapoppin is a musical revue written by the comedy team of Olsen and Johnson, consisting of John ""Ole"" Olsen and Harold ""Chic"" Johnson, with music and lyrics by Sammy Fain and Charles Tobias. The revue was a hit, running for over three years, and was at the time the longest-running Broadway musical, with 1,404 performances, making it one of only three plays to run more than 500 performances in the 1930s. After opening at the Shubert Theatre in Boston on September 10, 1938, ""Hellzapoppin"" opened on Broadway at the original"
"expensive real estate prices, and did not arrive in the Times Square area until the 1920s and 1930s. Broadway's first ""long-run"" musical was a 50 performance hit called ""The Elves"" in 1857. New York runs continued to lag far behind those in London, but Laura Keene's ""musical burletta"" ""Seven Sisters"" (1860) shattered previous New York records with a run of 253 performances. Around 1850, the French composer Hervé was experimenting with a form of comic musical theatre that came to be called opérette. The best known composers of operetta were Jacques Offenbach from the 1850s to the 1870s and Johann"
"Theatre. On 3 October 2010, the show celebrated its 25th anniversary with three productions running in London: the original production at the Queen's Theatre; the 25th Anniversary touring production at its 1985 try-out venue, the Barbican Centre; and the 25th Anniversary concert at London's O2 Arena. The Broadway production opened 12 March 1987 and ran until 18 May 2003, closing after 6,680 performances. It is the fifth longest-running Broadway show in history and was the second-longest at the time. The show was nominated for 12 Tony Awards and won eight, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. Subsequently, numerous tours"
"film ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"". As staged in the film ""Yankee Doodle Dandy"" (1942), starring James Cagney, this sentimental song is lightened by a scene in which her luggage springs open. Her male admirers politely gather her bloomers and petticoats, and repack for the blushing Mary, while they continue singing. Forty-five Minutes from Broadway Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway is a three-act musical by George M. Cohan written about New Rochelle, New York. The title refers to the 45-minute train ride from New Rochelle to Broadway. The musical debuted on January 1, 1906 at the New Amsterdam Theatre on Broadway and ran"
"Disturbances"". Other productions, such as ""Stomp"", ""Blue Man Group"", ""Altar Boyz"", ""Perfect Crime"", ""Forbidden Broadway"", ""Nunsense"", ""Naked Boys Singing"", """", and ""I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change"" have had runs of many years Off-Broadway, never moving to Broadway. ""The Fantasticks"", the longest-running musical in theatre history, spent its original 42-year run Off-Broadway and began another long Off-Broadway run in 2006. Off-Broadway shows, performers, and creative staff are eligible for the following awards: the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Outer Critics Circle Award, the Drama Desk Award, the Obie Award (presented since 1956 by ""The Village Voice""), the"
"Black"" is the second longest running stage play. Written by Catherine Johnson, ""Mamma Mia!"" is the West End's longest running jukebox musical. Richard O'Brien's 1973 West End musical ""The Rocky Horror Show"" has been ranked among the ""Nation's Number One Essential Musicals"". Peter Shaffer's 1979 play ""Amadeus"" premiered at the National Theatre. Elton John composed the music for ""The Lion King"" (lyrics by Rice) and ""Billy Elliot the Musical"", with both running for over a decade on the West End. Eric Idle's ""Monty Python's Spamalot"" made its West End debut in 2006. ""Matilda the Musical"" (an adaptation of Roald Dahl's"
"Irene (musical) Irene is a musical with a book by James Montgomery, lyrics by Joseph McCarthy, and music by Harry Tierney. Based on Montgomery's play ""Irene O'Dare"", it is set in New York City's Upper West Side and focuses on immigrant shop assistant Irene O'Dare, who is introduced to Long Island's high society when she is hired by one of its leading grande dames to help redecorate her home. The musical opened on Broadway in 1919 and ran for 675 performances, at the time the record for the longest-running musical in Broadway history, which it maintained for nearly two decades."
"are actors in a musical. Despite the musical's title, the Def Leppard song of the same name is not included in the musical. The original Broadway production ran for 2,328 performances, closing on January 18, 2015 tied as the 29th-longest running show in Broadway history. Since debuting on the Great White Way in 2009, it has spawned replica productions worldwide in Japan, Australia and the United Kingdom among others, as well as several touring productions. Lonny Barnett, who serves as the show's narrator, sets up the story: In 1987, an aspiring rocker named Drew Boley works as a busboy in"
"a series of successful Broadway shows, including ""On Your Toes"" (1936, with Ray Bolger, the first Broadway musical to make dramatic use of classical dance), ""Babes in Arms"" (1937) and ""The Boys from Syracuse"" (1938). Porter added ""DuBarry Was a Lady"" (1939). The longest-running piece of musical theatre of the 1930s was ""Hellzapoppin"" (1938), a revue with audience participation, which played for 1,404 performances, setting a new Broadway record. Still, a few creative teams began to build on ""Show Boat""s innovations. ""Of Thee I Sing"" (1931), a political satire by the Gershwins, was the first musical awarded the Pulitzer Prize."